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She struggles because she is constantly trying to figure out everyone's over the top sarcasm. Everyone know's she doesn't decipher it, but it continues. She constantly asks literal questions to silly comments and then she gets bashed for asking those questions which is what she's being baited to do! 

 

She's blunt as a hammer, but that's part of the situation she deals with. The difference is, her bluntness and or seeming rudeness is oblivious to her, unlike everyone else who does it purposefully. 

 

I know this is the internet and it's a cruel place, but there are people on the other side of those keyboards. 

 

<b>Asperger</b> Social Interactions

• Desire for friendships and social contact but difficulty acquiring and maintaining them
  
• Shuts down in social situations
  
• Social withdrawal / may avoid social gatherings
  
• Lack of interest in other people
  
• Lack of empathy at times
  
• Difficulty understanding others’ feelings
  
• Can obsess about having friends to prove they’re “normal”
  
• Rigid social behavior due to an inability to spontaneously adapt to variations in social situations
  
• Has an urge to inform that can result in being blunt / insulting
  
• Preoccupied with their own agenda 
  
• Great difficulty with small-talk and chatter
  
• They may not understand sarcasm or humor, or they may take a figure of speech literally
  
  

 

 

I think the issue many have, and we've had this discussion before, is the tact that is used in her responses to people and then what she expects to be used back to her.  Many times she is rude and crass back to people and there are many many people here that tread lightly with her because they know her situation, but there is only so much some people here are going to take. 

 

There are also people on this message board that just don't care...it is after all a public message board.  If it upsets someone so much then this may not be the place for her...its a message board made up primarily of males that come here and talk football.  They are bound to be a bit crude occasionally.  I wouldn't go to a primarily female message board and expect to change the culture.

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